Prototype: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), SBB Cargo Business Area, class Re 420 electric locomotive. Special adhesive covering for the anniversary "175 Years of Swiss Railroading". Road number Re 420 251-1. The locomotive looks as it currently does in 2022.

Highlights

• Attractive promotional design for "175 Years of Swiss Railroading".
• Centrally mounted motor and all 4 axles powered by means of cardan shafts.
• mfx+ World of Operation digital decoder and a variety of light and sound functions included.

Product description

Model: The locomotive has an mfx+ digital decoder and extensive sound functions. It also has controlled high-efficiency propulsion with a flywheel, centrally mounted. 4 axles powered by means of cardan shafts. Traction tires. The triple headlights and 1 white marker light (Swiss headlight / marker light code) change over with the direction of travel, will work in conventional operation, and can be controlled digitally. When the locomotive is running "light", the lighting can be switched to 1 red marker light or 2 red marker lights when running "light" in Germany. The headlights at Locomotive Ends 2 and 1 can be turned off separately in digital operation. When the headlights are off at both ends, the double "A" lights are on at both ends as a red emergency light. The locomotive has long-distance headlights, cab lighting, and engine room lighting, each of which can be controlled separately in digital operation. Maintenance-free warm white and red LEDs are used for the lighting. The locomotive has separately applied metal grab irons.

The couplers can be replaced by end skirting included with the locomotive. Length over the buffers 17.1 cm / 6-3/4".

Charlie's Tip

This model can be found in a DC version in the Trix H0 assortment under item number 25875.

Special locomotive edition "175 Years of Swiss Railroading" It all started with the "Spanish Brötli" - a delicious pastry from the Swiss spa town of Baden. That's not entirely true, of course, but on August 9, 1847, the first railway to be built in Switzerland, from Zurich to Baden, began operating on a timetable. Now, early in the morning, the servants of high society in Zurich could comfortably pick up the famous pastries that arrived on the train and bring them to the Sunday breakfast table on time, without having to walk for hours to Baden and back. For this reason, the name "Spanish Brötli Bahn" soon became established for this route.

In the years that followed, a rail construction boom also broke out in Switzerland, which reached a route length of 2,457 km within 35 years. Finally, between 1902 and 1909, the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) came into being through the nationalization of five large railway companies. As a result, an increasingly dense rail network wove across Switzerland, which is still used extensively today. After all, the Swiss have an absolute top value when it comes to rail use, because on average everyone travels around 1,800 km by train every year.

On the occasion of the memorable anniversary, the SBB are presenting an electric locomotive with a correspondingly striking special design. The Re 420 251 (ex Re 4/4 II 11251) was selected for this, whereby this universally usable series formed the mainstay of locomotive-hauled SBB traffic for decades and, with 276 units built between 1964 and 1985, also has the highest number of one for the Swiss Trains built series.

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